A famous science fiction artist named Frank Kelly Freas originally designed this for a comic book called "Astounding". He designed it for the story "The Gulf Between" which was in the October 1953 issue...The robot holding the dead body of a man is captioned "Please... fix it, Daddy?" to illustrate the story The Gulf Between by Tom Godwin. The robot killing the man was likened to a child injuring a bug and looking up at his parents saying "what have I done?" The original looks like this: